Super Blood Moon In Pisces
There are only three times I've ever travelled any distance to purposely get a photograph. Some years ago a small herd of seals came close to shore near Port au Choix on the Great Northern Peninsula to birth because of a lack of ice in the Strait. I went up there and managed to get quite a few shots ... a few of which I have uploaded here to Flickr. Then, early spring, two years ago a Pelican was spotted near Roddickton, again on the Great Northern Peninsula, but farther up. That's a pretty rare bird for these parts, so I decided to go have a look, see if I could photograph it. Some people did get shots of it and it actually made the news, but, by the time I made it up there it was long gone. Then, there's the Super Moon total eclipse. It was a cloudy day with rain here Sunday, but in the afternoon it looked like it was going to clear, so I thought I might get a glimpse of the eclipse through some breaks in the clouds. Then, late afternoon, the clouds moved in again. I had been monitoring traffic cams from different parts of the island all day and Port aux Basques, 200 kilometers to the west, had had blue sky all day, so around 5:30PM I decided to give up on hoping to see it here and went to Port aux Basques for the night. It was a very wise decision! I was rewarded with perfectly clear skies all night and a beautiful spectacle! Stayed in Port aux Basques for the night, but came back to Wreckhouse and the dark skies there to get my shots.
By the way, I uploaded this shot yesterday after I got back home, but was so fed up with what Flickr did to it that I didn't make it visible. It looked great on my computer, but when Flickr got hold of it, it made the top so dark it was almost black! So, I had to make the shot much lighter before I uploaded it again, hoping that that would fix it. It's better, but still not good in my opinion.
Super Blood Moon In Pisces
There are only three times I've ever travelled any distance to purposely get a photograph. Some years ago a small herd of seals came close to shore near Port au Choix on the Great Northern Peninsula to birth because of a lack of ice in the Strait. I went up there and managed to get quite a few shots ... a few of which I have uploaded here to Flickr. Then, early spring, two years ago a Pelican was spotted near Roddickton, again on the Great Northern Peninsula, but farther up. That's a pretty rare bird for these parts, so I decided to go have a look, see if I could photograph it. Some people did get shots of it and it actually made the news, but, by the time I made it up there it was long gone. Then, there's the Super Moon total eclipse. It was a cloudy day with rain here Sunday, but in the afternoon it looked like it was going to clear, so I thought I might get a glimpse of the eclipse through some breaks in the clouds. Then, late afternoon, the clouds moved in again. I had been monitoring traffic cams from different parts of the island all day and Port aux Basques, 200 kilometers to the west, had had blue sky all day, so around 5:30PM I decided to give up on hoping to see it here and went to Port aux Basques for the night. It was a very wise decision! I was rewarded with perfectly clear skies all night and a beautiful spectacle! Stayed in Port aux Basques for the night, but came back to Wreckhouse and the dark skies there to get my shots.
By the way, I uploaded this shot yesterday after I got back home, but was so fed up with what Flickr did to it that I didn't make it visible. It looked great on my computer, but when Flickr got hold of it, it made the top so dark it was almost black! So, I had to make the shot much lighter before I uploaded it again, hoping that that would fix it. It's better, but still not good in my opinion.